Rocker Eddie Van Halen started drinking to battle crippling nerves. The Van Halen guitar great has revealed he was just 12 years old when his father gave him a shot of vodka – and alcohol became his “wonder drug”. The rock star has been a heavy drinker ever since and had to halt Van Halen’s […]

2 days before the release of the new album ‘Battle For The Sun’, PLACEBO are enteringВ our Tuborg Top 40 Mega Rock chart with the first single – ‘For What It’s Worth’. PLACEBO will be our Jack Daniel’s band N 1 next week. The album was produced by David Bottrill and wil be the follow-up to […]

Music has suffered another tragic loss. Best known as the “Queen of the Blues,” singer Koko Taylor died in Chicago yesterday (June 3) at the age of 80. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Taylor (born Cora Walton) had passed away earlier this afternoon due to complications from surgery for a gastrointestinal bleed. The news was passed […]

News Corp. executives often present MySpace and Facebook as competing in different markets, with Facebook used as a communications vehicle and MySpace for entertainment. Whatever the case, a straight line can be drawn between more time spent on Facebook and less on MySpace. According to new figures from Nielsen Online, total minutes spent on Facebook […]

Can a beautiful woman whose family comes first be a hard rock icon and guitar star as well as a wife and mother of two boys? Sure, if she’s Lita Ford. After a 15-year hiatus from the rock’n’roll scene during which she married, moved to a remote Caribbean island, and started a family, the guitarist, […]

The Dandy Warhols are set to perform at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Thursday (June 4) in support of reforming US marijuana legislation. The event will be hosted by actress Fairuza Balk and will also feature a DJ set by David J of Bauhaus and Love And Rockets, as well as a magic […]

Pink Floyd’s former frontmanВ said Tuesday he’ll take to the stage the minute Israel tears down its West Bank separation wall, just as he did in Berlin two decades ago when another wall came down. Visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in the shadows of the towering concrete structure, the British rocker who co-wrote the iconic 1970s […]

Vocalist and film directorВ Rob Zombie has issued the following press release: “Toy makers Mezco Toyz have just released a photo of the brand new addition into their popular Living Dead Dolls line. The line features dead little dolls (cute!) and the newest addition to the family is none other than Michael Myers from Rob Zombie’s […]

Just a week befeore they jump in the plane to start their tour in Europe with a first concert at the Brixton Academy in London on June 10th,В FAITH NO MORE are still rehearsing like crazy. TheВ San Fracisco rockers just had the time to post the following message on their website: “In addition to rehearsing and […]

Liam Gallagher has premiered an unreleased Oasis track named ‘Man Of Misery’В on Prettygreen.com, the website of his soon-to-launch clothing range, Pretty Green. The singer is set to launch Pretty Green this Thursday (June 4). A further video on the website features a different clip from the song, while on Thursday (when the Prettygreen.com store opens) […]